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2. Add or disable 2-step verification for extra security - AOL Help

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   We'll send you a text or call you with a new code that needs to be entered at sign-in. The phone number we contact you with may be different each time. Enable 2-step for phone. 1. Sign in to your Account Security page. 2. Next to "2-Step Verification," click Turn on. 3. Select Phone number for your 2-step verification method. 4.

3. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

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   • Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.

4. Telephone number verification - Wikipedia

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   To verify that a telephone number exists and authorize its use, subscribers supply a telephone number on which to establish service, often via a web page. A unique code is first indicated or displayed to the customer via the web site, then an automated call is then placed to the supplied subscriber telephone number.

5. Fix problems signing into your AOL account - AOL Help

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   Call paid premium support at 1-800-358-4860 to get live expert help from AOL Customer Care. Having trouble signing in? Find out how to identify and correct common sign-in issues like problems with your username and password, account locks, looping logins, and other account access errors.

6. One-time password - Wikipedia

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   MasterCard SecureCode uses OTAC to confirm a user's identity One time authorization code as used in Yammer's desktop client. A one-time password (OTP), also known as a one-time PIN, one-time authorization code (OTAC) or dynamic password, is a password that is valid for only one login session or transaction, on a computer system or other digital device.

7. Multi-factor authentication - Wikipedia

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   Text messages to mobile phones using SMS are insecure and can be intercepted by IMSI-catchers. Thus third parties can steal and use the token. Account recovery typically bypasses mobile-phone two-factor authentication. [failed verification] Modern smartphones are used both for receiving email and SMS.